Warwickshire SOAP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOAP over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Location Abingdon Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	40
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	6	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.742 %	6.034 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£310	£325
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£342
% change on same period last year	+9.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.25	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Application Development Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	89	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.114 %
Daily rates quoted	21	10
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£284
Average daily rate	£292	£318
% change on same period last year	-8.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£25.16
Average hourly rate	£23.46	£27.69
% change on same period last year	-15.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.43	£30.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
SOAP West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SOAP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOAP across the Warwickshire region.

SOAP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOAP across the Warwickshire region.

SOAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAP within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nuneaton	-	3	£260	-

SOAP West Midlands

SOAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing SOAP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SOAP.

1 7 (100.00 %) C# 1 7 (100.00 %) .NET 1 7 (100.00 %) XML 2 6 (85.71 %) OO 2 6 (85.71 %) WebServices 3 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 4 (57.14 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (57.14 %) CSS 3 4 (57.14 %) XHTML 3 4 (57.14 %) UML 3 4 (57.14 %) Web Development 3 4 (57.14 %) AJAX 4 3 (42.86 %) Games 4 3 (42.86 %) WinForms 4 3 (42.86 %) .NET Framework

4 3 (42.86 %) Degree 4 3 (42.86 %) Mathematics 4 3 (42.86 %) Computer Science 4 3 (42.86 %) WPF 4 3 (42.86 %) Silverlight 4 3 (42.86 %) C++/CLI 4 3 (42.86 %) Unit Testing 4 3 (42.86 %) Continuous Integration 4 3 (42.86 %) W3C 4 3 (42.86 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (42.86 %) XAML 4 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (42.86 %) TDD 4 3 (42.86 %) XSD 4 3 (42.86 %) XSL

SOAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing SOAP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SOAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (100.00 %) XML 1 7 (100.00 %) .NET 2 6 (85.71 %) WebServices 3 4 (57.14 %) AJAX 3 4 (57.14 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (57.14 %) CSS 3 4 (57.14 %) XHTML 4 3 (42.86 %) WinForms 4 3 (42.86 %) XSD 4 3 (42.86 %) XSL 4 3 (42.86 %) XSLT 4 3 (42.86 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (42.86 %) WPF 4 3 (42.86 %) Silverlight 5 2 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Games 2 1 (14.29 %) Government	Job Titles 1 7 (100.00 %) Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Web Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) Applications Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) .NET Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) C# Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) C# Application Developer 2 3 (42.86 %) .NET Applications Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) W3C 1 3 (42.86 %) Mathematics 1 3 (42.86 %) Computer Science 2 2 (28.57 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (85.71 %) OO 2 4 (57.14 %) UML 2 4 (57.14 %) Web Development 3 3 (42.86 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (42.86 %) Continuous Integration 3 3 (42.86 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (42.86 %) TDD 3 3 (42.86 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (28.57 %) Web Design 4 2 (28.57 %) OOP 4 2 (28.57 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (100.00 %) C# 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 3 (42.86 %) XAML 3 3 (42.86 %) C++/CLI 3 3 (42.86 %) C++ 3 3 (42.86 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 3 (42.86 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft